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ReviewMedicinal research reviews2018

Progress in the synthesis and biological evaluation of lipid A and its derivatives.

Jian Gao, Zhongwu Guo

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Review in Medicinal research reviews, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. O2a O-antigen type and sepsis in invasiveFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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  2. A Novel nor@DHB Matrix for Direct Microbial Analysis in Lung Cancer Tissues.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Jian GaoNational Glycoengineering Research Center and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Glycobiology, Shandong University, 27 Shanda Nan Lu, Jinan, 250100, China.
Zhongwu GuoDepartment of Chemistry, University of Florida, 214 Leigh Hall, Gainesville, FL, 32611.ORCID 0000-0001-5302-6456
Shandong University · CNUniversity of Florida · US

Funding

Metabolic Engineering of Cancer for Selective Immunotargeting (NIH/NCI: 5R01CA095142-14)R01CA095142 · NCI · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI GUO, ZHONGWU · 2002 to 2019
$3.3M
Novel Approaches to Access GPIs and GPI-Anchored Proteins for the Study of GPI AnR01GM090270 · NIGMS · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI GUO, ZHONGWU · 2009 to 2017
$2.4M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA095142NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM090270
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lipid A is one of the core structures of bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPSs), and it is mainly responsible for the strong immunostimulatory activities of LPS through interactions with the Toll-like receptors and other molecules in the human immune system. To obtain structurally homogeneous and well-defined lipid As and its derivatives in quantities meaningful for various biological studies and applications, their chemical synthesis has become a focal point. This review has provided a survey of significant progresses made in the synthesis of lipid A, and its derivatives that carry diverse saturated and unsaturated lipids, have the phosphate group at its reducing end replaced with a more stable phosphate or carboxyl group, or lack the reducing end phosphate or both phosphate groups, as well as progresses in the synthesis of LPS analogs and other lipid A conjugates. These synthetic molecules have facilitated the elucidation of the structure-activity relationships of lipid A useful for the design and development of lipid A based therapeutics, such as those utilized to treat sepsis, and other medical applications, for example the use of monophosphoryl lipid A as a carrier molecule for the study of fully synthetic self-adjuvanting conjugate vaccines. These topics are also briefly covered in the current review.

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AnimalsBiosynthetic PathwaysHumansLipid AVaccinesLipid Amonophosphoryl lipid AVaccinesadjuvantimmunostimulantimmunotherapylipid Alipopolysaccharidesynthesis

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PMID28621828
PMCPMC5732894
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